Post by annienormanna on Jan 17, 2007 20:34:17 GMT -5
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6271103.stm
The small hamlet of Shangba is a tiny jumbled collection of houses sitting in the lush green paddy fields and hills of southern China.
It sounds idyllic, but many of the locals are dying after drinking polluted water.
Shangba has become one of the country's growing number of what have been called "cancer villages".
The small hamlet of Shangba is a tiny jumbled collection of houses sitting in the lush green paddy fields and hills of southern China.
It sounds idyllic, but many of the locals are dying after drinking polluted water.
Shangba has become one of the country's growing number of what have been called "cancer villages".
